Chapter 464. to provide for the construction of a public building at the city of Fort Wayne, in the State of Indiana
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CHAP. 464.— An Act to provide for the construction of a public building at the city of Fort Wayne, in the State of Indiana.August 8, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Wayne, hid. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and Public building.directed to purchase or otherwise procure a suitable site for a publicPurchase of site. building, which site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by au open space not less than fifty feet, including streets and alleys, and 370 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
SESS. I. On. 464, 465. 1882. cause to be erected thereon, at the city of Fort Wayne, in the State of Indiana, a substantial and commodious public building, with fireproof vaults, for the use of the United States district and circuit courts, internal-revenue service, post office, and other government offices; the Plans.R. S., 3734, 737.plans, specifications, and estimates for said building having first been prepared, examined, and approved as required by section thirty seven hundred and thirty-four of Cost.*Proviso, *Title.the Revised Statutes of the United States, upon calculations and specifications that will insure the completion of the building at a cost not to exceed the the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; *Provided,* That no money to be appropriated for said building shall be used until a valid title to the site shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Indiana shall have ceded to the United States jurisdiction over the same for all purposes, during the time the government shall be or remain the owner thereof, except for the enforcement of the criminal laws of the State and the service of civil process therein.
Sec. 2. That for the purposes above mentioned the sum of fifty thousandAppropriation. dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, August 8, 1882.